Door or gate hinge



E. L. HOLMWOOD.

DO0R 0R GATE HINGE. APPLICATION FILED JUNEZB, I921- mum Nov. 28, 11922.

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EDGAR LOWDEB. I-IOLIVIVJ'OOD, OF IVIASTEBTON, NEW ZEALAND.

DOOR B GATE HINGE.

Application filed June 28, 1921. Serial No. 481,051.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDGAR LownEP. HOLM- woon, citizen of the Dominion of New Zealand, and resident of Masterton, in the District 'ot Wellington and in the Dominion of New Zealand, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Door or Gate Hinges, oi. which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that class of hinges which are made Of wire or rods and are more especially adapted for use in hanging gates, doors of farm buildings, boxes and similar rough class of work, though the hinge may be used for other purposes where a hinge is required.

important features of the invention are the improved means whereby the hinge can be more securely fixed in position by an unskilled person and its low cost of manufacture which makes the hinge available for the cheapest class of work.

The hinge consists of two parts both made entirely of wire or rods. One part comprises a hollow spiral formed by coiling the middle portion of a length 01"- wire or rod the ends of which are bent to provide legs approximately parallel with each other or slightly diverging the extremities of said legs being bent at right angles and sharpened to provide claws.

The coacting part of the hinge consists of a length of wire or rod passed through the coil of the other part to its middle portion and bent at each end of the latter to form parallel or slightly diverging legs the ends of which are also bent at right angles and sharpened to provide claws.

The hinge is fixed to a gate, door, box or the like by driving the claws into the woodwork of the gate door, box or the like, and by means of staples driven into the woodwork astride the legs near the claws and the coil.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing Figure 1 is a front elevation.

Figure 2 an end view.

Figure 3 is a sectional plan of the hinge in position on line A-A Figure 1.

The one part of the hinge consists oi a length oi wire or rod having its middle porwire passed through the coils 2 and i2 and bent at each end of the latter to provide parallel or diverging legs 5, the portion 5 of the wire between the legs 5 being retained in the coil 2 and 2 and formed into a member 5* at right angle to the legs 5 and between the coils, a loop 5 being formed to provide a good bearing surface against the woodwork and to receive a staple.

The extremities of the legs 5 are also bent at right angles and sharpened to provide claws 6.

In use the claws 4.- and 6 are driven into the woodwork 8 of the parts to be hinged together and the legs 3 and 5 are secured to the latter by staples 9 driven astride them into the woodwork 8, near the claws 4 and 6 and the coils 2 and 2 and by staples 1O driven astride the members 2* and 5 into the woodwor z.

The right angled members 2" and 5 effectually prevent the hinge from being forced from the woodwork under ordinary wear and tear.

What I do claim and desire to obtain by Letters Patent of the United Eitates is 1. A hinge comprising a length of wire bent into coils with legs approximately parallel to each other at the ends of said coils, a centrally formed 100p member at right angles to the coils and to the legs, a length of wire passed through said coils to produce legs approximately parallel to each other, and a centrally formed loop member between the ooils and at right angles to the legs, the two loops lying one within the other in substantially the same plane when the parts to which the hinge is mounted are in closed position, substantially as described and illustrated.

2. A hinge comprising two lengths of wire, one of which lengths is bent into coils with legs approximately parallel to each other at the ends of said coils and which length has the central portion bent into a loop extending at right angles to the coils and to the legs, and of which lengths of wire the other is passedthrough said coils to orm legs approximately parallel to each other and which length has it central portion bent into a loop between the coils and at right angles to the legs. 10 

